A Virgin Atlantic A330 aircraft struck by an Egypt Air 777 while awaiting take off at JFK airport. The wingtip fell off during the incident delaying the flight for several hours. No injuries were reported.
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Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Hard landing for Safi Airways 737-400
Safi Airways flight 4Q502 from Herat, was damaged in a hard landing accident on runway 29 at Kabul Airport, Afghanistan. The right hand main gear separated and the aircraft came to rest with the second touching the runway. An evacuation was carried out on the left...
Colombia plane crash
A chartered aircraft with 81 people on board has crashed on its way to Medellin's international airport. There are reports of at least six survivors. The British Aerospace 146 aircraft was operated by a Bolivian charter airline called Lamia and was enroute to Colombia...
AN-24 aircraft skids off runway in Donetsk
A small AN-24 aircraft carrying 45 passengers skidded past the landing strip and overturned in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Wednesday. Four people were killed, two were injured and the fate of two others remains unknown. The aircraft, which had departed...
The big one in 2013: The start of Transatlantic Free Trade talks
Summer 2013 will see talks begin between the EU and the United States on producing a free-trade agreement that would give birth to the largest free trade zone on the planet, significant enough to add 0.5% or €86bn to overall EU GDP and 0.4% or €65bn to the US economy...
Aviation Risk: The rising cost of protection against cyber-attacks; Kingfisher won’t see Diageo money; Hainan investment in European airlines with CDG access
UN aviation body ICAO will recommend creating a cyber security task force at a meeting next week in Canada. A task force is needed due to an increasing reliance on interconnected IT systems with operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Linux, and protocols such...
Aviation Risk: The rising cost of protection against cyber-attacks; Kingfisher won’t see Diageo money; Hainan investment in European airlines with CDG access
UN aviation body ICAO will recommend creating a cyber security task force at a meeting next week in Canada. A task force is needed due to an increasing reliance on interconnected IT systems with operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Linux, and protocols such...
WWW.AEDUBLIN.COM GOES LIVE AND AIRLINE ECONOMICS DUBLIN 2013 POWERS AHEAD
We understand that there are some things you cannot leave to chance and the annual get together in Dublin is one of those things. For this reason we have already made sure that the core of finance and leasing are in attendance and there are more airlines than have...
Farnborough, air shows in general and Airline Economics Dublin 2013
It is mid-week and many of you will be getting air show fatigue by about now. For many getting to the show itself is very hard work indeed, it seems that unless you are flying, you are very lucky indeed to have a trouble free run of it seemingly from any direction....